General Litigation Attorney

Job Description:

• Responsible for all aspects of litigation support, including collecting, organizing, and producing documents in response to all types of discovery requests including third-party subpoenas and drafting written responses to discovery requests.
• Job requires analytical skills to identify applicable laws and understand aspects of the client relationship
• Perform independently a variety of relatively complex legal tasks related to miscellaneous litigation matters, including independently negotiating and responding to subpoenas, levies, garnishments, court orders and wage deduction orders in multiple jurisdictions
• Understands field organizational structure and identifies key stakeholders to efficiently respond to discovery requests and third-party subpoenas
• Review of documentation to determine deadlines and ensure conformity with legal requirements
• Conduct independent legal research on specific issues
• Communicates with clients, government agencies or officials on a regular basis to answer questions related to service of process and to collect and assemble information
• Provides case management support, including monitoring and following up on case calendars, filing deadlines, and paper and electronic docket search

Qualifications:

• Must have a valid license to practice law in Illinois
• Must have experience with subpoena and discovery responses, including document identification, collection, and production.
• A successful candidate will understand written and electronic discovery well-enough and will learn data map to spot problems with discovery suggestions from outside or opposing counsel and advise senior internal counsel accordingly
• Must have familiarity with legal holds, document management applications (such as Everlaw, Relativity, Concordance, Nebula, etc.) and secure electronic document sharing (such as FTP sites)
• Requires collaboration, confidence, insightfulness, written and oral communication and being tech-savvy
• Must have strong leadership, analytical abilities and judgment
• Requires exceptional organizational skills to work effectively and cooperatively with internal and external clients, management and staff and to coordinate business functions with other departments on dozens of matters simultaneously
• Demonstrate professionalism and skill working in a team environment and coordinating workloads
• Ability to multi-task and consistently meet aggressive and time-sensitive deadlines
• Thorough knowledge of applicable litigation principles
• Knowledge of state and federal court process and e-filing
• Hours: 8am - 5pm CST

Benefits:

Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.

Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.

Vision Insurance : Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first enrollment date that is at least 30 days after employment begins. Enrollment dates are each January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st.

Technical Certification Bonus: Synectics is pleased to award its employees a bonus of up to $500 for an approved professional certification. In determining the bonus amount, Synectics will consider the cost of the test(s) for any certification relating to your current position, achieved during your employment with us. Only one Certification Bonus per calendar year may be awarded per employee. Only current, active employees will be eligible to receive this bonus. It will be awarded 90 days after the Synectics office has received documentation confirming the successful completion of the certification.

Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.